Stahl balanced the ship to his best dodging and weaving multiple shots from the TIE fighters. *Good job Stahl you really got yourself in it this time* Stahl kept thinking to himself as he began remembering what he did earluer that got him in this situation.

Got you. Nope no flashback

Stahl's thoughts were abruptly interrupted as more fire came down upon him. Desperate to keep the shields up Stahl began weaving left to right losing control of the ship multiple times. Luckily he didn't crash, but the Imperials still rained on him. In the midst of all the chaos Stahl suddenly heard a beeping noise in the cockpit. Stahl looked at the panel trying to see where it was coming from hoping to see a blinking light to let him know which button to press. That backfired since all the buttons on the panel were blinking and Stahl couldn't use the force so he resorted to the most childish way to pick something. "Iny...meeny....miny.." Stahl said pointing at three buttons before pressing the fourth one. Stahl started hearing a wooshing sound like a waterfall. Stahl soon realized that it was the fuel container he opened yelling "Nononononono" pressing the button again not hearing the sound anymore. Stahl then heard a rappid beeping looking behind him to see that the big panel showed the Ghosts fuel capacity at 50 percent. *Great* Stahl thought to himself as he felt the ship rumble from another blast from the Imperials. Stahl looked at the panel again saying "iny....meeny.....miny..." hitting the forth button he pointed at again. This time an alarm went off scaring Stahl that the Imperials might have broken throught the shields. It wasn't however because Stahl felt another energy shot hit the ship making it rumble again hearing no explosion. Stahl kept hearing the alarm so he pressed the button again soon not hearing it. However Stahl began feeling light headed along with having trouble breathing. So Stahl looked at the life support seeing that it was function. *That must have been the air button I pressed* Stahl thought becoming more frightened at his situation. Stahl still however heard that annoying beeping so Stahl said "iny....meeny....miny..." hitting the fourth button he pointed at. At long last that button was it, it turned out to be the communicator button because Stahl heard Kanans voice come through saying "Stahl what is going on. How did the Empire even find you" already annoying Stahl. Stahl didn't feel the need to deal with Kanan so he said "sorry sir wrong channel" ending the transmission. Not even 1 minute later Stahl began hearing the beeping again. Stahl pressed the button hearing Kanans voice again so Stahl repeated "Wrong Channel" cutting off the transmission. Again Stahl heard the beeping, so when he pressed the button he yelled into it saying "YOU HAVE THE WRONG..." stopping dead cold once he saw Hera's hologram appear. Stahl began to sweat as he said "hey Hera, how's the party" getting "It was great, until somebody was seen flying through the air with Imperials chasing after him" making Stahl get affected by his actions. However Hera knew that now was not the time to get angry, so she said instead "hows the Ghost holding up" with Stahl saying "shields are up but for only a matter of time" as Stahl avoided a big rock. Apparently an Imperial didn't because the next thing Stahl heard was a small explosion. Hera curious and worried asked "what was that" getting "I think an Imperial TIE just collided into the rock I avoided" calming Hera down a bit. Hera then began to explain "Stahl, go into the clouds for cover. Once you do turn around and use those two buttons the the flight controls to fire the nose gun" making Stahl gulp and nod at her instructions. Stahl pulled back on the flight controls ascending into the clouds. The TIES followed after Stahl still firing at the ship soon losing sight of it. As Stahl flew in the clouds Hera said "now increase the thrust. Its the lever next to the middle one. Once you've gone far enough turn around and blast the Imperials" getting another nod. Stahl pushed the lever on the left of the middle one forward feeling the ship get fast making Stahl fall a little more back in the seat. After a few minutes of flying faster Stahl pulled the lever back putting the Ghost at its previous speed. Stahl turned the ship around in a 180 degree turn catching the Imperials in sight. Once Stahl felt he was close enough he pressed the two buttons on the flight controls making the nose gun direct energy blasts in a straight line destroying the TIE on the right. As the last TIE and the Ghost flew past each other Stahl took a small sign knowing this disaster was almost over. The Ghost made another 180 turn. However when the Ghost did Stahl saw the TIE hovering in one spot. Since Stahl was unknowledgeable on how to stop he set the speed of the Ghost to its minimum. The TIE didn't move an inch from its spot. Stahl began to wonder why the Imperial wasn't moving from his spot. It didn't take long to realise that the TIE was going to play the suicide game. Stahl smiled and put the Ghosts engines at maximum without going into hyperspace. The TIE did the same exact thing with both of them coming at each othet full speed. As the ships got closer Stahl began smiling more and more. Before the two were super closer Stahl pressed the buttons shooting down the TIE flying threw the black smoke. Stahl then leaned back in the pilots seat giving a relaxed sign lowering the Ghosts speed. The communicator began beeping making Stahl yell annoyed as he activated it producing a hologram of Kanan. Kanan looked at Stahl saying "good job Stahl, now..." getting interrupted by Stahl who said "wrong channel" cutting him off again. Stahl brought his hands to his head breathing slowly knowing that the oxygen was still low. Not even another minute the communicators began beeping this time with Hera appearing. Stahl smiled at her saying "the TIES are gone" getting "good. Sending coordinates for our rendezvous. The auto-pilot is the button in front of flight controls" from her as she ended her transmission. After that Stahl heard a light beeping hoping it was the coordinates as he pressed the auto-pilot button letting the ship take control. The ship began turning and flying towards a location. Stahl internally signed heavily knowing it was the coordinates. As the ship flew smoothly through the sky Stahl looked out at the view getting trapped in what he saw. In all of the years Stahl has lived on Lothal he had never seen something as beautiful as the planes beening coated in the moonlight. Not ever since he first laid eyes on the planet. For a brief few moments, Stahl felt at peace with himself. It was ruined however when he saw 6 figures waiting for him in the field. Stahl closed his eyes and breathed a little calmly thinking the auto-pilot would land the ship as he headed toward the docking bay.

The walk to the location where the crew was meant to rendezvous with the Ghost was long and very tiring. During the entire walk Kanan kept thinking *what did that dumb boy do* with Hera more concern about the damage to the Ghost. Nobody talked the entire way. The crew managed to get to the rendezvous as the Ghost came in sight. They saw the Ghost descend slowly making it seem like it was going to be a smooth landing. However the ship made a stumbled landing with the sound of something or probably someone landing against the walls in the cargo bay. The ramp soon opened revealing Stahl rubbing the back of his head. "Nice job kid" Zeb said sarcastically as all of the crew entered the ship. "How was I suppose to know the auto-pilot was terrible at landing" Stahl said defensively as Hera went over to the diagnastics to see any damaged that the ship might of taken. The others stood in the bay waiting to hear if there was anything wrong with the ship. Hera soon finished the diagnastics seeing all the recources they lost. Hera closed her eyes and breathed in heavily very mad at what she saw. "Hera..." Kanan said wanting to know the damage. Hera turned towards Kanan saying "fuel is at half capacity and the life support is at its critical level". Kanan tried to wrap all of this around his head looking over at Stahl who stayed where he was when they had entered the ship. Kanan walked over to Stahl asking "What happened while we were gone Stahl" getting "I was training" from him. This made no sense to Kanan as to how any kind of training could have alerted the Empire. "What kind of training could you have possibly done to have drawn that much attention" Kanan asked again beginning to get frustrated. Stahl only said "my training" and began walking towards the latter. However Kanan grabbed Stahl's arm throwing him back in front of him saying "how Stahl" beginning to get on the boys nerve. Stahl tried again to walk past Kanan, but Kanan grabbed Stahl's arm again having a tighter grip. "You want to knoe what kind of training I was doing" Stahl said looking up at Kanan who looked back at him. Stahl's blade became unsheathed as swiped at Kanan's head who narrowly ducked it. Stahl took his other blade swiping behind him missing Kanan again as he stepped back putting his guard up. The others were about to intervein, but Kanan put his hand up to them letting all of them that he could handle him. Stahl kept his blades raised locking his eyes on Kanan. Neither of them moved an inch staring at each other waiting for the other to make a move. Stahl leaped at Kanan ready to strike him. Before he could Kanan stretched out his hands suddenly having Stahl fly back and hit the wall behind him. Stahl hurriedly tried to get back on his feet when he saw Kanan holding his unactivated lightsaber down at his head. Knowing there was nothing Stahl could do to get out of his situation he closed his eyes and placed his head against the edge of the handle. Kanan didn't do anything, he kelt his saber pointing at Stahl so he knew that he wouldn't try to harm him again. Kanan began hearing Stahl say "aren't you gonna do it" as he looked up at him. Kanan didn't respond, he only looked at the kid internally shocked. "Come on do it. You didn't give a rats hole about me. Come on do it, DO IIIIT" Stahl yelled scarring everyone. Not once has anyone ever seen Stahl ask for death, much less ask for it at the hands of one of their own. "I......I won't do it" was Kanan's only reply as he put his saber away. Stahl became dissapointed at not getting what he wanted. This drove Stahl to say "no wonder the Jedi died off" standing up looking at Kanan in the eye finishing "they were nothing but a bunch of softies. A warrior a true warrior never hesitates" walking past the wounded Jedi. The others just watched Stahl walk past them and climbed up the latter. Once Stahl was gone Hera walked over to Kanan who was about to be on his knees from all the weight he felt on his back. When Hera put her hands on Kanan's shoulder and hip he flinched for a second before he looked at her as she asked "Kanan, love, its ok". That was all Kanan needed to hear, Kanan lied his head against Hera's both of them closing his eyes. Sabine already knew those two needed some privacy. She began shooing the others away having the cargo bay all to the Pilot and Jedi. When Hera assumed that the both of them were alone she leaned her face up kissing the Jedi as gently as she could. Kanan kissed Hera back wrapping his arms around her waist enjoying every second of their kiss. As the two pulled apart Hera looked at Kanan saying "Love, if you ever need me, I'm right here beside you" placing her right hand on his chest feeling his heart beat. Kanan loved this, it was everything he every wanted with her, ever since the two of them had met. "And don't worry. Stahl isn't going to go unpunished" Hera said making Kanan lightly chuckle. "Well until then, lets just have this time to ourselves" Kanan said picking up Hera and taking her to their room.

Stahl's room

As the hissing of the door opened Stahl stared down at the gray floor that resembled himself. Stahl knew what he did was wrong but it wasn't completely his fault. He had tried to walk away and Kanan just.....just.....kept pushing him. Stahl didn't know how rlse to react to the situation. He never has had anyone to talk to and when he did they didn't bother listening. Stahl just lost his sense of control in himself. Stahl walked over to the bed sitting down as he let his thoughts rampage through his head. After a few minutes of letting everything calm down Stahl began to question why it was him that was chosen. Depa could have picked anyone to be Kaman's padwan, Ezra made a well suited fit for him. So why did she pick him. After a few more minutes of bickering Stahl eventually told himself "if she chose you then you must find out why" standing up and heading to the roof to train.

Hey guys. Hope you like this chapter. I have a question, has my chapters felt like something that is star wars rebels or something else. If it isn't please let me know and if it is please send me some suggestions on how to make it better. Until my next chapter...
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